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Number Theorists use a different definition of "almost all" from the one you see in measure theory. They use the limit version shown in the video.

A society with a massive surveillance dragnet that everyone has access to is not necessarily totally transparent. Public access to the dragnet data would make it easier to evade th…

Bitcoin is also unusual for a collectible in how much it can be subdivided.

If we want the captcha to be accessible outside the target demographic, we should scrap the whole chess thing as well.

It bothers me that in some months, the 27th is 3 days from the end of the month, but in some months, the 27th is 4 days from the end. Could this mess up the graph? The 27th appears…

If there really is a smaller barrier to developing for Ouya than other consoles, there will be Ouya exclusives.

In the US, judges rewrite the law with every ruling. Since the precedent established by a case is used in future decisions, the "real" law (the one which your actions will be compa…

It seems like most of the commenters here are treating the evidence of Google's wrongdoing as conclusive. It isn't. A comment on the post by Richard Wooding demonstrated how Joe Ra…

By rescaling the numbers, the two questions can be turned into: - "Would you pay $900 for a 90% chance to win $1000?" - "Would you pay $100 for a 10% chance to win $1000?" So the d…

Every monad solves exactly this problem.

Between refreshes, the number of signatures needed jumped from 3 to 16. I wonder what happened.

This power is reserved for those secure enough against legal backlash to perjure themselves. Just like DMCA takedown notices. Copyright holders with lots of resources can issue as …

This was written as a series of blog posts before being compiled into a book. The original is here: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/24/fine-wine/

At least two differences between software and music: - no malware - possible online updates or other interactions As long as these differences persist, your distribution method can…

No more than keeping your encryption keys a secret is security through obscurity. Even if you're transparent about your overall scheme, you need to keep some execution details hidd…

When picking a password, you don't just care about the entropy. You also care how far down the password guessing order it is. People who want to guess a password don't just brute f…

Finding the convex hull of a collection of points is a studied problem, so you can use an existing solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_hull_algorithms Alternatively, will…

To implement a usable if , you need to tie it to some form of logical branching. Haskell can tie it to pattern matches. C compiles them to conditional jumps in asm. The asm jump in…

equals: other ^ PTrue new The implementation of ifTrue isn't done. The branching was just deferred to the equals function, which has to somehow choose between PTrue and PFalse. Wil…

Rob Walling has written about this a bit. "The 5 Minute Guide To Cheap Startup Advertising" http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/43774/The-5-Minute-Guid... 3 part series on startup…

People haven't started paying $2000 for it yet. It may still grow.

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